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by cpr 14y ago
I'll take it. Who says health is the end-all and be-all of human existence? I'll come back for my claim chowder when the US economy collapses Greek-style, thanks to a fiat currency controlled by a private entity like the Fed, crony corporat
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by cpr 14y ago
Hand-waving wildly, trying to avoid the loss of purchasing power that's the inevitable result of fiat money, and ad hominem to boot. Actually, I'd be happy to trade places with someone living in 1913.
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by cpr 14y ago
> By extension any woman who suffers a miscarriage is a murderer, or worse, has a fertilized egg that fails to implant. Are you sure you want to stick with that definition? Murder requires intention. Don't be silly.
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by cpr 14y ago
Politifact http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2010/nov/24/vi... claims it's "half true". The Bureau of Labor Statistics, supposedly no partisan outfit, says the dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power since 1913: http://ww
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by cpr 14y ago
You make all these points as if it's self-evident ("to all right-thinking peoples", "no one here but us...") that he's dead wrong about them. That's not very helpful. Of course human life begins at conception--what is the combined human egg
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by cpr 14y ago
Use Safari/Chrome under Mac OS, and you've got it, complete with customizable key mappings.
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by cpr 14y ago
"Robert Greene is the author of the international bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, ...[list of books]. His highly anticipated fifth book, Mastery, examines the lives of great historical figures such as Charles Darwin, Mozart, Paul Graham,
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by cpr 14y ago
You can always ask the app store/iTunes store for a refund, and they'll almost always give it no questions asked. At least in my eperience.
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by cpr 14y ago
Just FYI: since the recent release of Loren Brichter's Letterpress app (wild success), the iOS cognoscenti on Twitter have been doing nothing but bashing Game Center from all directions--performance, reliability, etc.--, including Gruber.
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by cpr 14y ago
Does anyone else feel that the content is awfully lightweight? More like brief (if well-crafted) blog entries than magazine stories.
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by cpr 14y ago
Just keep your MacBook closed when plugging in the external display (or wake it up with an external mouse or keyboard), and the internal display will stay off when you open it later (if you need to use the internal keyboard).
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by cpr 14y ago
Not really--you'd still be using large-arm motions on a large surface, holding up your arms so you wouldn't generate false touches. Even palm detection won't help, as you'd still need the large-scope motions to tie things together.
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by cpr 14y ago
Nifty! But how do you avoid the "gorilla arm" problem with large touch-screen monitors?
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by cpr 14y ago
Looks great. Would be nice to see a demo of its number-crunching capabilities, to judge whether it's innovative in that area as well.
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by cpr 14y ago
Nice! Sure wish this had an RSS feed. Who's going to visit every week to see what's changed? Oh, wait, it does--just have to use the source. Can you make a feed icon somewhere? Chrome and Safari no longer show the feed availability visually
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by cpr 14y ago
Does swizzling really have a place in well-designed software today? (edit: changed everything. ;-)
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by cpr 14y ago
Those were just the early lucky ARPA fundees, mostly because they had excellent computer science departments (or were well-connected politically, like Harvard) or were research institutes like SRI or Rand. Plus the usual military nodes earl
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by cpr 14y ago
The red circles are IMPs (interface message processors--full routers connected to hosts) and the circled T's are TIPs (terminal interface processors--dialup routers).
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by cpr 14y ago
This is the Internet map a few months after I first got on from Harv-10 in 1972: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/7257339850/lightbox/ . Brings back great memories of sitting by the Harvard IMP (router) late at night, and getting a
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by cpr 14y ago
Funny, the first article you quote is written by one of the prime ClimateGate perpetrators. And saying "allegations of ClimateGate is not sufficient" is not sufficient in the face of clear evidence of tampering and suppression of data that
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by cpr 14y ago
It might be helpful to put this in perspective. See Burt Rutan's critique of global warming "science": http://rps3.com/Files/AGW/EngrCritique.AGW-Science.v4.3.pdf Page 5 in particular shows the insignificance of the current warming period
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by cpr 14y ago
Near the very end: "Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," said Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a m
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by cpr 14y ago
Of course, for Retina displays, those small vector-based graphics will look great. For everyone else, they'll be blurry. So maybe that will simply add to the "tough for non-Retina users" momentum...
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by cpr 14y ago
Agreed. This is one of the major points of using YCN. You could just take the reddit approach and get "close enough" on more links that have expired. (Not that I'd want HN to become more like reddit. ;-)
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Executive Order -- Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness(whitehouse.gov)
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by cpr 14y ago
A year or two back P2 was so flakey in so many ways, it was impossible to use. Has it gotten any better?
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by cpr 14y ago
Oh, man, how I love that cool weather...just enjoyed SF during WWDC (which was too hot most of the time ;-).
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by cpr 14y ago
join.me is a great & free service.
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by cpr 14y ago
Huh? All Cocoa drawing takes place in points (they're floats in most cases), not pixels.
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by cpr 14y ago
Thunderbolt is the high-speed channel on this thing. Plug it into a matching Cinema Display and you've got Firewire, GigE, etc., all via Thunderbolt. Apple, once again, is betting on a new standard, which seems to be working. (The HDMI port

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